conflict between gnome-applets 2.20 and libgweather 2.22

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:43:22 -0600, Bob Frazier <bobf at mrp3.com> wrote:

> there is an installation conflict between gnome-applets 2.20 and  
> libgweather 2.22 .  in the process of trying to 'pkgdb -F' on my system  
> (due to a number of problems doing the 2.20 to 2.22 upgrade) I installed  
> libgweather to satisfy the new dependencies.  Unfortunately this causes  
> trouble when you deinstall gnome-applets 2.20 since libgweather  
> components get de-installed.
>
> One recommended update procedure might be to pkg_deinstall gnome-applets  
> before doing any gnome upgrade from earlier versions (including one  
> involving a portupgrade of gettext which is where it started affecting  
> me).  This is independent of the 'nautilus' issue already in the  
> 'UPDATING' file.  This might also help prevent some of the cyclic  
> depenencies that other packages were causing (mentioned in my previous  
> e-mail).  once everything is upgraded, gnome-applets should end up being  
> re-installed as a dependency of gnome2-2.20 and libgweather as a  
> dependency of that.

It is already documented in /usr/ports/UPDATING (20080323).

Cheers,
Mezz


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